Hi everybody:

I have an Asus P4S800D-E deluxe motherboard. I try installing window Xp media center 2005 on it but it told it could not find a hard drive; I have a SATA 74 GB Western digital HD, I check the cables but they seem fine. When the system boots it could see the HD but doesn't detect the serial devices, it says PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SERIALS DEVICES NOT FOUND, BUT ON THE BOOT SETUP IT SEES THE HD, I went to ASUS found a patch for the BIOS to fix the SATA HD problem, the manual tell me to download to a floppy and change the file name to P4S800DE.ROM  to update the bios using the Asus EZ flash update, so I boot the pc press the keys the manual say Alt + f2, I insert the floppy in it; it find the floppy drive but it don't find the file, I try do it again, I reset the system, but I get the same thing, so I erase the file fro
m the floppy and download it again, and make sure the file it has the correct name before I saved it,but I still get the same problem, there other two ways to flash the bios but, one of them requires to be in windows and the other require a floppy; (thank if your'll still reading this, hope you get it),so I don't know what else to try, I don't want to use an IDE hard Drive, because I will have to buy it, and the serial drive the I bought is expensive,and don't have the money for a new board, so my only option is to flash the bios, the pc sees the floppy drive so I don't think that the problem; any suggestions? anything I haven't think about, please help me. Sincerely Thank you
                                                  Antonio Figueroa

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